- International Fees
International fees are typically 3.12 times the domestic tuition. Exact cost will be calculated upon completion of registration.
Course Overview
This course builds on concepts presented in Theory 1 such as critical thinking, assessment, and level of urgency. Students are given opportunities to work individually and collaboratively through complex emergency patient presentations, identifying concepts key to emergency nursing. Pathophysiology, assessment, and decision making related to shock, pediatrics, mental health, substance use, acute coronary syndrome, and cardiac arrest will be explored. Students will be expected to participate in group activities throughout this course.
Domestic fees
$637.17 - $1,251.40 See individual course offerings below for actual costs.
Learning Outcomes
As a healthcare practitioner, you are expected to follow professional standards of practice throughout all SN programs and courses. In this course, you will have opportunities to use the processes of critical thinking, systematic inquiry, communication, collaboration, leadership, professionalism, and clinical decision-making. Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Relate theories of determinants of health to assessment of patients presenting with substance misuse, domestic violence, child abuse, and acute mental illness.
- Apply health promotion and harm reduction strategies to patients presenting with a history of substance misuse and domestic violence.
- Reflect on your personal values and beliefs related to caring for emergency patients presenting with a history of substance misuse, mental illness, child abuse, and domestic violence.
- Describe how to effectively support and communicate with other team members, patients, and families during complex situations.
- Explain the importance of understanding the phenomenological or “lived experience” of patients from special populations and their families impacts emergency nursing care.
- Apply the components of the systematic emergency nursing assessment framework to a variety of emergent and complex patient presentations.
- Apply the concepts of oxygen supply and demand framework to a variety of emergent and complex patient presentations.
- Determine the level of urgency and prioritize care for complex emergency presentations.
- Demonstrate an understanding of appropriate pharmacological interventions for complex emergency patient presentations.
- Apply knowledge of anatomy and the underlying pathophysiology to complex emergency presentations, including: special populations (pediatric, geriatric, mental health), various shock types, and respiratory, cardiac, and neurological emergencies.
- Interpret a variety of 12-lead ECGs and determine the clinical significance and underlying pathophysiology of the findings.
- Outline the indications for, steps of, and pharmacological considerations for Rapid Sequence Intubation (RSI).
- Apply the components of the Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) treatment algorithms to applicable patient presentations.
- Contrast the contexts of urban and rural ED practice environments.
- Outline the components of the emergency mental health assessment and expected management of a variety of mental health emergencies.
- Use clinical reasoning to identify and manage actual and potential health-related problems for emergent and complex emergency patients.
Effective as of Spring/Summer 2023
Related Programs
Emergency Nursing Theory 2 (NSER 7210) is offered as a part of the following programs:
- Indicates programs accepting international students.
- Indicates programs with a co-op option.
School of Health Sciences
- Emergency Nursing Specialty (Combined Emergency/Critical Care Option)
Advanced Certificate Part-time
- Emergency Nursing Specialty (Pediatric Emergency Option)
Advanced Certificate Part-time
- Emergency Nursing Specialty (Standard Option)
Advanced Certificate Part-time
- Specialty Nursing (Emergency - Combined Emergency/Critical Care Option)
Bachelor of Science in Nursing Part-time
- Specialty Nursing (Emergency - Standard Option)
Bachelor of Science in Nursing Part-time
Course Offerings
Fall 2024
Below are two offerings of NSER 7210 for the Fall 2024 term.
CRN 36429
Dates
Tue Sep 03 - Fri Nov 22
- 12 weeks
- CRN 36429
- Domestic fees $1251.40
Status
In Progress
This course offering is in progress. Please check this page for other currently available offerings or subscribe to receive email updates.
Class meeting times
Dates | Days | Times | Locations |
---|---|---|---|
Sep 03 - Nov 22 | N/A | N/A | Online |
Instructor
Tatiana Rubalcava Vargas
Course outline
Important information
- Internet delivery format.
- Departmental approval needed
- Important course information will be sent to you prior to your course start date. Check your myBCIT email account to access this information.
- International fees are typically 3.12 times the domestic tuition. Exact cost will be calculated upon completion of registration.
- This course is for practising registered nurses. On-line format, textbooks can be purchased from the BCIT bookstore. Contact Program Assistant at jackie_sousa@bcit.ca for approval to register.
CRN 38524
Dates
Tue Sep 03 - Fri Nov 22
- 12 weeks
- CRN 38524
- Domestic fees $637.17
Status
In Progress
This course offering is in progress. Please check this page for other currently available offerings or subscribe to receive email updates.
Class meeting times
Dates | Days | Times | Locations |
---|---|---|---|
Sep 03 - Nov 22 | N/A | N/A | Online |
Instructor
Tatiana Rubalcava Vargas
Course outline
Important information
- Available for exam challenge only.
- Departmental approval needed
- Important course information will be sent to you prior to your course start date. Check your myBCIT email account to access this information.
- International fees are typically 3.12 times the domestic tuition. Exact cost will be calculated upon completion of registration.
- Program approval required for registration into this challenge section. Contact Program Assistant at jackie_sousa@bcit.ca for approval to register.
Winter 2025
Below are two offerings of NSER 7210 for the Winter 2025 term.
CRN 77375
Dates
Mon Jan 06 - Fri Mar 28
- 12 weeks
- CRN 77375
- Domestic fees $1251.40
Status
Seats Available
This course offering has seats available.
Class meeting times
Dates | Days | Times | Locations |
---|---|---|---|
Jan 06 - Mar 28 | N/A | N/A | Online |
Instructor
TBD
Course outline
Course outline TBD — see Learning Outcomes in the interim.
Important information
- Internet delivery format.
- Departmental approval needed
- Important course information will be sent to you prior to your course start date. Check your myBCIT email account to access this information.
- International fees are typically 3.12 times the domestic tuition. Exact cost will be calculated upon completion of registration.
- This online course is for registered nurses only. Please contact the Program Assistant at jackie_sousa@bcit.ca for approval to register.
CRN 78637
Dates
Mon Jan 06 - Fri Mar 28
- 12 weeks
- CRN 78637
- Domestic fees $637.17
Status
Seats Available
This course offering has seats available.
Class meeting times
Dates | Days | Times | Locations |
---|---|---|---|
Jan 06 - Mar 28 | N/A | N/A | Distance |
Instructor
TBD
Course outline
Course outline TBD — see Learning Outcomes in the interim.
Important information
- Available for exam challenge only.
- Departmental approval needed
- Important course information will be sent to you prior to your course start date. Check your myBCIT email account to access this information.
- International fees are typically 3.12 times the domestic tuition. Exact cost will be calculated upon completion of registration.
- Please contact the Program Assistant at jackie_sousa@bcit.ca for approval to register.
Programs and courses are subject to change without notice.